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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
American units with the highest percentage of casualties per conflict; Deadliest single days of World War I; List of battles by casualties; List of battles with most United States military fatalities
This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.
This list does not include bombing campaigns/runs (such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo) or massacres such as the Rape of Nanjing, which, despite potentially massive casualties, are not typically classified as "battles", since they are usually one-sided engagements or the nation attacked is not officially at war with the ...
Third Anglo-Burmese War: 1885 1887 First Boer War: 1880 1881 408 408 Anglo-Zulu War: 1879 1879 1,900 1,900 Second Anglo-Afghan War: 1878 1880 9,850 9,850 - Ref: Indian Rebellion of 1857: 1857 1858 11,021+ 11,021 + Source T.A.Heathcote Mutiny and Insurgency in India 1857-58, 2007 Pen & Sword military publishers Second Opium War: 1856 1860 134 134
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
People killed during the Sri Lankan civil war (1 C, 66 P) People killed in the Sudanese civil war (2023−present) (6 P) People killed in the Syrian civil war (5 C)